Crime/Psychological Thrillers (by male authors with female protagonists) - Guest Post by Seb Kirby
Authors Electric guest poster, |Seb Kirby Despite the widely held opinion that male authors don't create convincing central female characters, there are some notable exceptions in literary fiction: Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders , Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary , Truman Capote - Breakfast At Tiffany's , Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go , Ian McEwan - Atonement. Proving that it can be done and done well. But when it comes to male authored crime/thriller fiction, women protagonists are in more short supply. Of course, there are a great many very good and highly successful crime/thriller novels with female protagonists that are written by women (a list too long to mention). And there is a large number of male authored thrillers with strong female characters. A good example is Lisbeth Salander in Steig Larrson's Millennium series. But where are the male authors in this genre when it comes to internalising a view of the wor...